An A and B market would grow in value a lot, therefore you'll get a lot more equity, a C neighborhood will have the best cash flow, however, the management will be more expensive and more time consuming and less equity growth. 

His license number is your shield, if he does not do it, you have legal grounds to get a contractor's bond claim through his bonding agency, you will have to call the CSLB consumer hotline to guide you how to do it, they will require you that you document everything - you have to exhaust all options that the contractor should do the corrections, after that, get 2-3 bids from other contractors and the bond company will cover the difference in cost then go after the original contractor - it is like you are only paying the original contract amount.

Jeremy Pakalka Yes, RE Agents will have their tool to identify whether or not a property is in the flood zone, but I would recommend consumers to do their diligent as well just in case.

Although time consuming, being that this was my first deal I thought this was the best way I could verify things I would highly recommend doing something similar for people looking for their first.

That is just the scoop I was looking for from a consumer.

I know a few Landlords that report monthly payments to a credit reporting agency but it is complicated and time-consuming.

I was reading Zillow's 2017 Consumer Housing Trends Report today (https://www.zillow.com/report/2017/) and it had "Needs and Wants" statistics for renters and buyers. 67% of renters required + desired off street parking/garage and 40% of buyers required ample parking.

There are downsides to a cloud based brokerage, you won't have designated training time, your communication with broker and support staff will be electronic rather than face to face, and while all the training you could consume is there, you've got to be motivated to do so.

I was thinking of emailing BP and suggesting a search for the podcasts and have found it time consuming to finding the type of podcast I was interested in listening to, great job!

(figuring that it would be time consuming to find a contractor, get them in for a quote, etc etc anyway).Thanks for the details.